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Embedded Software Blog

A few weeks ago we held one of our Google+ On-Air Hangouts on Internet of Things Security. You can view the full video using the embedded YouTube video below. During this hangout we received some excellent questions from the audience, and one of our presenters, Felix Baum has taken the time to answer three of them.
How is the transition between secure and normal carried out? What part controls that?
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If you're in the Silicon Valley next Tuesday, March 11th and interested in Automotive Virtualization please join us for an exciting event. The Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source meetup group is hosting an event titled: "Security and Performance Benefits of Automotive Virtualization". A presentation will be given by Felix Baum who you may recognize as one of the authors of this blog - he's written

In the light of recent announcement of Mentor Embedded Hypervisor and discussions about embedded hypervisor technology, I am pleased to have another opportunity to host the ramblings [his word] of my colleague Faheem Sheikh. I would question his implying that it is easy to make a perfect cheese omelette from a recipe …
An oft-cited analogy for software working out-of-the-box (OOTB) is that of … Read More

At Tokyo Embedded Tradeshow last week, the Mentor ESD team was very busy as we had many medical customers stopping by our booth to find out how Mentor Embedded Hypervisor can help them to address regulatory and ethical issues with protecting sensitive patient information and industrial customers to make industrial equipment secure and more reliable.
The explosion in medical devices is due in part to … Read More

A very good turnout at the webinar I have recently hosted on the topic of Enabling Multi-OS Embedded Systems with Hypervisor Technology. During webinar, I talked a bit about trends in the embedded industry, the way hardware and software vendors are dealing with these trends, walked through the most popular Operating Systems configurations – SMP, AMP and sAMP, highlighted the benefits of embedded virtualization, … Read More

I am very excited to post my first entry to the embedded blog and share the announcement for the product that I am managing. As some of you are aware, on October 24th 2013, Mentor Graphics officially launched Mentor Embedded Hypervisor via announcement found here – http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software/news/mentor-embedded-hypervisor.
The upcoming product release will contain support for Multicore … Read More